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Environment
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson

Steel trap: Australia must make green metal or risk ore

Electric arc furnaces powered by renewable energy could be used to produce green steel in Australia. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

Australia must act urgently to build a domestic green steel industry or could risk losing its $120 billion iron ore export market, a report has found.

Climate Energy Finance issued the warning on Thursday in a 69-page report into the sector that recommended greater support to take the risk out of early projects and changes to put green metals on a level playing field with imports.

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